Stay for harness-breeching.



PATENTED JAN. 30, 1906.

1:". X. SCHUMAKER. STAY FOR HARNESS BRBEGHING.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. l, 1904.

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WITNEESES:

FRANK X. SCHUMAKER, OF FORT SCOTT, KANSAS.

STAY FOR HARNESS-BREECHING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 3o, 1906.

Application iled March l, 1904. Serial No. 196,106.

To @ZZ 1071/0111, t 'may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK X. SCHUMAKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fort Scott, in the vcounty of Bourbon and. ,State of Kansas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Stays for Harness- Breeching, of which the following is a speciication.

My invention relates to improvements in stays for breeching for harness; and the object of my invention is to provide a stay or layer for holding the breechin in position on the rear of the animal that wil be neat in appearance and perfect in construction and. susceptible of long durability.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a section of the breeching with my stay in position on the breeching. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the breeching and the stay, taken on line a a, of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view of Fig. 1, taken on line l) l), showing the manner of attaching the buckle-strap and loop to the breeching-stay. Fig. 4 illustrates a broken section of the breeching and the stay with the buckle and loop removed, disclosing the central support, which is integral therewith.

With the above description I will now proceed to more fully describe my invention by referring to corresponding numerals on the drawings and the speciiication, in which- 1 illustrates one end of the breeching oi a harness. Securely stitched thereto is a breeching-stay 2. Said stay is produced from a single piece of leather, and. the Yfront end thereo 3, is of sufficient length to provide a loop for securing a holdbaclc-strap ring 4 to the end of the breeching and the stay.

My object in producing this breeching-stay of a., single piece of leather is that I rind in practice that it is much more durable and equally as cheap and more reliable than the usual way in which breechingstays are made and secured to the breeching.

It will be noticed by referring to Fig. 4 that the single piece ol leather from which my breeching-stay is produced includes a central vertical strap 5, which is integral with the other vparts of the stay. Rigidly secured to said strap 5 is a buckle-strap 6, together with a loop 7, secured thereto. The buckle-strap 6 and the central strap 5 are chamfered and. lapped, as shown in Fig. 3.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In a breeching-stay for harness of the character described, a stay of the configuration shown, constructed of a single piece of leather', and comprising a body portion, inwardly-extending arms, a central support integral with the body portion and the arms; substantially as described.

2. In a breaching-stay for harness of the character described, the combination of a breeching, a stay stitched to the breeching,

inwardly-extending arms integral with the stay, a central support integral with the central portion of the stay andwith the inwardlyextending arms; substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I allx my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

FRANK X, SCI-IUMAKER. Witnesses:

E. C. GATES, WALTER WrLsoN. 

